Tired of the standard binary choice of OFF / ON when it comes to lighting your home? Then check out this clever floor lamp by FX Ballery . The Eva Lamp has a lighting unit that slides up and down on a

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I went to Iceland looking for fabulous design, and I found it just not in the places I expected. Although I couldn’t find any museums or galleries devoted to contemporary Icelandic design, it seemed

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It sometimes seems like Coney Island is destined to live forever in its bygone days of classic roller coasters and hot dogs. But this week, the island has carved a niche for itself that will make it an

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Some things in our society are completely over-designed (how many handbags does one person need?) Other things are so solemn that design is rarely, if ever, considered. Rituals surrounding death fall into

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Everybody loves a rocking chair. From classic porch rockers to high-end “gliders”, the rocker is superior among chairs. Making the rocking experience all the more care-free is Reel Furniture,

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The S’lheimar eco village that I visited while on holiday in Iceland was full of interesting takes on environmentally concious architecture. Most of the buildings have sod roofs, which provide

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If you’ve been to Iceland, you’ve probably done the famous “Golden Circle” tour, which hits all of Iceland’s main tourist attractions in a couple hours drive through the

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Bruni/Babarit, the French odd couple of site-specific earth art, are currently exhibiting their most recent tour de force in Fert?-Bernard, France. Gilles Bruni and Marc Babarit are artistic partners with

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Now that speaker design has gotten all high-tech, are you feeling nostalgic for the wooden boxes of yesteryear? If you are like me and harbor a fondness for the boxy design of old hi-fi speakers (but not

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The phenomenal publisher of art and culture books, Taschen, is celebrating their 25th anniversary this year. There are a number of reprints and special editions coming out to mark the occasion, including

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Iceland is hot – both as a tourist destination, and underground, where all the geothermal action is. Iceland sits on the geologically active Mid-Atlantic Ridge (where the North American continental

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One of the first things visitors to Reykjavik notice is the crazy spaceship-looking church dominating the skyline. The Hallgrimskirkja (Hallgrim’s Church) is impossible to miss, as it is by far the

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I’m currently here in Reykjavik, the windy capital of Iceland, and will be here until Sunday July 24th. I’ll be scouring the scene for the coolest Icelandic design and architecture, so feel

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Once, during a paralyzingly cold winter, you decided to take up knitting. You bought a soft ball of yarn and a pair of needles and plopped down on your couch with the lofty goal of making a skull cap with

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For those of you who believe that the reputation of college students as impassioned revolutionaries has been replaced by one of apathetic conformists, you may find restored hope at the University of

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Developers in Liverpool are planning a major residential development that would incorporate green principles from design through operation. The $31m project would include fifty-four homes in a five-block

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When I think of token surf spots around the globe, the UK is not the first one that comes to mind. But as it turns out, Britain’s surf history is some three hundred years old. The British Surfing

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At the University of Guelph, near Toronto, green design is a literal term. The new Humber building, designed by Toronto firm Diamond Schmitt Architects, Inc., uses a wall of plants as a living air

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In the century since the Wright brothers made their giant leap for aviation, flying has become an unremarkable mode of transport, and planes have turned into airborne living rooms. The standard of a good

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Across the bay from San Francisco, enormous industrial cranes that resemble steel dinosaurs stand guard at the Port of Oakland. They epitomize the domination of industry in the modern world, and at the

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I’m headed to Iceland today for a week to check out the Icelandic design scene and soak it up in geothermal hot springs! Contributing writer Sarah Rich will be taking care of Inhabitat while I am

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What is it about the Dutch and design? Why is it that most witty and thought-provoking designers these days all seem to be coming out of the Netherlands? Tord Boontje, Jurgen Bey, Hella Jongerious,

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Everyone is drawing on the walls at Hotel Fox?at least everyone who is someone in the world of urban art, graphic design and illustration. Situated in the heart of Copenhagen, the sixty-one rooms have

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You could argue it’s astrophysically impossible to have a black hole within a black hole (we kid, we kid, LA peeps). Nonetheless, architects Benjamin Ball and Gaston Nogues (from Materials &

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Germany’s Hansa has come out with these futuristic bathroom fixtures. The metal spigot has the top portion removed, creating a visible canyon for your water to run through. As if these rectangular

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“Each new situation requires a new architecture.” Jean Nouvel French new wave architect Jean Nouvel is probably most famous for his L’Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris. Seeing that

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Maverick design star Tom Dixon is a household name in England, where they take design more seriously than us yokels accross the pond. Dixon is most famous for being the creative director of Habitat, the

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Hive Modular is three architects who dreamt of building affordable pre-fab homes. Affordable prefab, you ask? Isn’t all prefab affordable? Although prefabricated building is meant to be affordable

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Now that sustainability has become household language, environmental-friendliness can be more of a marketing buzz word than a true indication of responsible manufacturing. Fortunately, there are some

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Brooklyn based Vinylux fashions tableware from old records. Artist Jeff Davis started hand?making these symmetrical, stepped bowls from non-playable LPs as part of his graduate thesis project. The product

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